Scott Herring's strategically brilliant introduction to this new edition of Autobiography of an Androgyne provides a valuable measure of the advances made in sexuality studies in recent decades. He shows particular brilliance in his analysis of the work as a remarkable kind of literary hybrid, mixing elements of popular formula fiction with avant-garde fields of nascent psychologies and sociologies of sex at the end of the nineteenth century. - Michael Moon, Emory University

Scott Herring is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University and the author of Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History.